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This novel is ambitious as it focuses on multiple themes. It is a modern-day contemporary view of diverse characters. The three main characters initially sparked my interest because of their backgrounds.

Paris Kahn is a driven, Manhattan assistant district attorney; she is South Asian by birth, lived in foster homes, adopted twice and loved by her final adoptive father, the Judge, who was Jewish. Paris adored the Judge and felt loved and wanted by him. She is an angry, brilliant woman who can be elusive and loving to her best friend, Naira (Indian) and ultra-successful, handsome husband Neal Singh Fraser, who is Scottish. There is no doubt the reader can wonder if he’s Scottish when Kothari has him spew Scottish words (bairn, lass, hen ye) in every sentence ad nauseum. The chapters alternate between two narrators, Paris and Naira, and naturally their points of view and emotions.

Neal wants children (bairns or descendants) but there is no way Paris will allow herself to be pregnant. However, she will do anything for Neal and so we come to surrogacy. This leads us to the third main character, Naira. Naira left Mumbai for New York to escape her recent widowhood, suffocated by tradition and horrendous legal and monetary problems. Naira and Paris are supposedly best friends who have not seen each other in a few years, but Naira turns up at a wedding of a mutual friend and the two women are reunited. And so, the drama and endless dialogue begins.

There seemed to be one explosion after the other in the novel. The sexual scenes between Paris and Neal almost border on erotica. The angst of the proxy motherhood become steeped in the deepest feelings about family. Emotional predicaments crowd each other in every chapter. After the first half of the book, it all became too much, overbearing parents, distant parenting, uncivil siblings, decorating new apartments, selling property; the plot became muddied. I understood the ethical and emotional stresses placed on each character but there seemed to be no reprieve. 3.5 stars


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The Object of Your Affections Falguni Kothari 9781525823534 Books Reviews

This novel is ambitious as it focuses on multiple themes. It is a modern-day contemporary view of diverse characters. The three main characters initially sparked my interest because of their backgrounds.

Paris Kahn is a driven, Manhattan assistant district attorney; she is South Asian by birth, lived in foster homes, adopted twice and loved by her final adoptive father, the Judge, who was Jewish. Paris adored the Judge and felt loved and wanted by him. She is an angry, brilliant woman who can be elusive and loving to her best friend, Naira (Indian) and ultra-successful, handsome husband Neal Singh Fraser, who is Scottish. There is no doubt the reader can wonder if he’s Scottish when Kothari has him spew Scottish words (bairn, lass, hen ye) in every sentence ad nauseum. The chapters alternate between two narrators, Paris and Naira, and naturally their points of view and emotions.

Neal wants children (bairns or descendants) but there is no way Paris will allow herself to be pregnant. However, she will do anything for Neal and so we come to surrogacy. This leads us to the third main character, Naira. Naira left Mumbai for New York to escape her recent widowhood, suffocated by tradition and horrendous legal and monetary problems. Naira and Paris are supposedly best friends who have not seen each other in a few years, but Naira turns up at a wedding of a mutual friend and the two women are reunited. And so, the drama and endless dialogue begins.

There seemed to be one explosion after the other in the novel. The sexual scenes between Paris and Neal almost border on erotica. The angst of the proxy motherhood become steeped in the deepest feelings about family. Emotional predicaments crowd each other in every chapter. After the first half of the book, it all became too much, overbearing parents, distant parenting, uncivil siblings, decorating new apartments, selling property; the plot became muddied. I understood the ethical and emotional stresses placed on each character but there seemed to be no reprieve. 3.5 stars